Driver Dead After Porsche Falls From 101 Fwy
WOODLAND HILLS A motorist died in a speeding Porsche that came off the Ventura (101) Freeway, overturned and burst into flames on Burbank Boulevard Saturday, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

A lime-green 2008 Porsche veered off the westbound side of the freeway near Shoup Avenue and came to rest against a parking structure in the 22100 block of Burbank just after 2:30 a.m., according to CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos and a CHP sergeant who spoke to a Newsreel camera crew at the scene.

The Porsche took at least a 30-foot drop, and cleared a six-foot chain link fence before crashing, an RMG News camera crew reported.

Also set ablaze was a parked car that was struck in the parking structure, RMG reported.

"It appears to be a solo-vehicle accident at this time," he said.

The dead person's name was being withheld until his or her next of kin could be told about the crash.

The German-made cars are known for their brawn. Most models are two-seaters with high-performance,12-cylinder engines and cost more than $100,000.

Re: 30 yr old killed in a fiery crash in his Gallardo in Woodland Hills...

Its like 11 mins. from where I live! I saw it on the news the night it happened. A friend of mine said that he met the guy at the weekly car show on Valley Circle a few days before the accident. He said the car was a lime green Gallardo LP560. He said the guy had his hair dyed the same color green to match the car, and was wearing a sport-coat with lime green trim when he met him! I was looking at that car at Callabasas Lamborghini about 3 weeks ago when they first got it in.